“Anne not only makes you work hard as a writer, but she also makes your hard work produce much better writing. If you are serious about writing and are looking for a talented editor, I don’t believe you can do better than Anne Fleck at Novel Spirits Books.”
Book Planning Workshop
$300 for a 4 to 6 hour consultation
Book planning workshops prevent endless revisions and put you in control of your book’s structure. Anne will help you get a bird’s-eye view of your book’s structure, diagnose plot holes, and think about genre. You will go home with a guide to help you keep your writing on track. Unlike traditional outlining, a book planning workshop will allow you to be intuitive and flexible and will leave you feeling confident and energized. A book planning workshop would also be helpful to a writer who has a fragmented manuscript that just won’t come together.
Every writer should start here. It will save you months of revision and a good amount of money in subsequent edits.
Developmental Editing
3.5 cents/word
3 cents/word for authors who have completed Anne’sBook Planning Workshop
The first draft of a book is written for the writer. Developmental edits help move the manuscript from a work for the writer, to a work for the reader. As an editor Anne playsthe reader’s advocate as well as the writer’s coach in helping you understand how to make your work connect with your reader effectively.
The developmental editing fee covers three stages of work: developmental edits, developmental/line edits, and a consistency edit. At each stage of the work we will meet together to talk over suggestions and workshop ideas. If you have contracted with Novel Spirits Books for developmental edits, you will not need to contract for line edits or analysis of the first three chapters. They are included in the developmental editing rate.
Line Edits
2 cents/word for heavy line edits
1.5 cents/word for regular line edits
In line edits, Anne will clean up your writing, reduce your word count, get rid of the passive voice, and make other editorial changes to refine your manuscript. Includes analysis of your first three chapters or first 5,000 words.
Copy Editing
2 cents/word
Lisa will work with you to make your writing not only grammatically correct, but clear and concise. She will also help you navigate the more artistic elements of grammar and punctuation.
Proofreading
2 cents/word
Lisa will proofread your work to make sure that it is 95% error-free and ready to publish as a book, blog, or article.
Analysis of First Three Chapters
$100 flat rate
Your first three chapters are crucial! In them you will establish and break stasis, bond the reader to the characters, communicate genre and style, and set in place the world rules, themes, and overarching metaphors. A book that fails to accomplish all these things in the first three chapters fails to attract readers, agents and publishers.
Anne will read and analyze your first three chapters or first 5,000 words, whichever comes first, and provide detailed notes on how to make those chapters work for your manuscript to help you accomplish your publishing goals.
This service is for manuscripts that have already had developmental and line edits done by a different editor. All books which have received developmental or line edits from Novel Spirits Books receive this service as part of the editorial package.